Soviet Communist Party leader Brezhnev arrives, Bonn, W Ger, for 4‐day visit; calls for intensive efforts at arms reduction; denounces possible deployment of neutron weapons in Eur; W Ger Pres Walter Scheel calls for binding mutual agreement against neutron weapons; illus with Chancellor Schmidt and Soviet Foreign Mon Gromyko (M)

BREZHNEV IS IN BONN FOR FOUR‐DAY VISIT

Pres Carter delivers speech before Los Angeles Bar Assn in which he criticizes legal profession and holds regional news conf later in day in Portland, Ore (M)

President Says Lawyers Foster Unequal Justice

Carter Adm indicates that it is willing to compromise on plan to sell F‐15s to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel; Cong sources say compromise might involve increase in number of planes sold to Israel; Pres Carter says plan is in best interest of US and should not be changed, news conf (M)

Carter May Compromise on Planes, Possibly Increasing Sales to Israel

Composting operation on 4‐acre plot of Hunts Point peninsula has been started; operation should, in 6 wks, begin producing humus that will be used for 500 empty, devastated acres of Bronx land; illus (M)

Project to ‘Green’ 500 South Bronx Acres Begins

Article on how rising prices for agr products and cattle have improved farmer‧s income at expense of consumer; agr consultant John Schnittker comments; graph; illus (M)

Improving Farmers’ Incorne At the Consumer's Expense

The Arab&#8208;Israeli war of 1973 tested United States economics as well as diplomacy. The sixth of seven excerpts appears today on page A8.

RN: The Memoirs Of Richard Nixon

ALBANY, May 4&#8212; They come together most Monday mornings during the law&#8208;making season, bearing the banners of Schoharie, Chemung, Tioga and Oswego, among others. Their discussions hear an air of legislative

Albany's Appleknockers: Hayseeds They're Not

Group of Middle Eastern investors offers $50 million for Barclay, Biltmore and Roosevelt, NYC hotels owned by co, during rr reorgn hearing in US Dist Ct, Phila (M)

Mideast Bid for 3 New York Hotels

Douglas Costle, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has told the White House that his agency was considering ways to make cleaning up dirty air and water less costly to industry. Page D2.

E.P.A. Cites Cost Moves

US asks S Africa for urgent explanation of mil action against SWAPO (S)

SOUTH AFRICAN FORCE CROSSES INTO ANGOLA TOATTACK GUERRILLAS

NYSE trading vol totals 37.52 million shares; ASE mkt‐value index rises to 138.79 (M)

Dow Falls Early on Inflation Fear; Recovers Partly to Close at 824.41

Rising food costs seen as main reason why wholesale prices rose 1.3% in Apr (S)

WHOLESALE PRICES UP 1.3 PERCENT IN APRIL, THE MOST IN 3 YEARS

News Summary

Alcoa raises price of aluminum used in beer and soft drink cans by 3.4% to 72.5c a lb; move, if it becomes indus‐wide, would make price of can stock 17.5% higher than it was a yr ago; illus (M)

ALCOA TO LIFT COST OF ALUMINUM USED FOR BEVERAGE CANS

NYS Ins Dept, in move sought by Gov Carey, drafts bill to exempt nonconsumer ins contracts involving annual premiums of at least $100,000 from state regulation and to drop 2.5% premium tax on some out‐of‐state sales; Ins Supt Albert B Lewis comments; Amer Ins Group backs bill (M)

STATE DRAFTS BILL TO FREE INSURERS ON BIG CONTRACTS

H J Heinz Co to acquire co for over $71 million (M)

H. J. Heinz to Buy Weight Watchers For $71 Million

Mfrs Hanover Trust, Morgan Guaranty, Chem Bank and Bankers Trust raise rates (S)

Banks Stepping Up Loan Demand at Fed

Justice Dept will investigate repts that GM acted illegally to insure that ‘78 Buick LeSabres passed EPA emission control audit (M)

U.S. PLANS TO STUDY G.M. EMISSION AUDIT

Fukuda speaks at Japan Soc, NYC; illus (M)

Fukuda Proposes Joint Financing on Fusion

article on Calumet Farm owners Admr Gene Markey and his wife Lucille and chances of their horse Alydar in race; illus (L)

2 Octogenarians Look to Derby for a Ninth Hurrah

Ailey, Alvin, American Dance Theater: Illus of dancer Judith Jamison, who is appearing in Alvin Ailey Amer Dance Theater‧s new work ‘Passage‧

WEEKENDER GUIDE

On Sunday afternoon the Friends of Cast&#8208;Iron Architecture will lead a tour through SoHo, an area many New Yorkers associate with crumbling factories and well&#8208;appointed artists&#8217; lofts. But the tour will demonstrate that SoHo is more than that. It represents the world's highest concentration of iron architecture dating from the 1860's through the 1880's. And to know the architectural history of its streets is to get a vivid glimpse of the city's past.

An Architectural Tour of SoHo's Cast‐Iron Heritage

members make public, under ethics legis enacted in ‘77, most extensive disclosure yet of their personal finances; disclosures produce no apparent instances of striking conflicts of interest or strong evidence that members used their positions to bolster their finances; legis provides that members could announce before Apr 30 intent to retire and thus avoid filing disclosure statement; 27 members have so announced and doz cited outside income curbs as major factor in decision; statements show several members to be millionaires; 14 members say their only income is Cong pay; members are only required to place holdings and debts in gen categories; several members rept heavy debts; information that statements give about Dem chmn and ranking Repubs of coms outlined; members and coms listed (L)

Members of House Disclose Data On Outside Income and Liabilities

Kitt, Eartha: Singer Eartha Kitt to give benefit concert at 92d St ‘Y’ for scholarship fund of ‘Y’ School of Music; por (M)

Eartha Kitt, in Concert, Doing Her Own Thing

Cunningham presides at last dinner as Dem leader of Bronx; confesses to feeling of ‘ambivalance’ as he addresses 1,100 guests at Bronx orgn‧s annual dinner at Waldorf‐Astoria, which was turned into Cunningham tribute; illus with Gov Carey and Mayor Koch (M)

May 5, 1978

Headlines from May 5, 1978

BREZHNEV IS IN BONN FOR FOUR‐DAY VISIT

President Says Lawyers Foster Unequal Justice

Carter May Compromise on Planes, Possibly Increasing Sales to Israel

Project to ‘Green’ 500 South Bronx Acres Begins

Improving Farmers’ Incorne At the Consumer's Expense

Billboard 200

Saturday Night Fever

London Town

Slowhand

Point Of Know Return

Earth

Historical Context for May 5, 1978